A college level example of the results and conclusions sections of a lab report for a qualitative analysis of forest communities lab.

Results:

Density

According to the class’ findings, the mean density in the old habitat was 0.217 and the standard deviation was 0.026, as shown in Table 1 and Figure 1. Table 1 and Figure 1 also show that the mean density in the new habitat was 0.207 and the standard deviation was 0.053. Overall, we can see in Figure 1 that the densities of the two habitats are almost equal; the old habitat may have a slightly higher density of trees overall.

T-test= 0.15 Based upon the data and the t-test, we can assume that there is not a significant tree size difference between the two habitats. The t-test gave us a value of 0.15, which is also considered the p-value. When the calculated p-value is greater than 0.05, such as in this case, we accept the null hypothesis. The null hypothesis says that any difference in tree size in the two habitats is a result of chance, meaning that there is not a significant difference in tree size in the two habitats.